NO INTERVENTION

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20513, 1 June 1938, Page 5

NO INTERVENTION

COST OF THE SCHEME WITHDRAWAL OF VOLUNTEERS BRITAIN SHARING IN OUTLAY (OlDciil Wireless) Received June 1. 11 a.m.) RUGBY. May 31. The chairman’s sub-committee of the Non-Intervention Committee met to-day and received a detailed statement of the cost of the scheme for the evacuation of foreign volunteers In Spain. After Lord Plymouth had Intimated that Britain was prepared to participate in providing the necessary funds on oondltlon that other Governments also participated, representatives agreed to refer to their Governments the documents concerned.

The Soviet representative, however, after re-stating the attitude of his Government on the withdrawal proposals, said the Soviet would be prepared to consider contributing, in common with other Governments to the Co9t of establishing and maintaining the Commissions which are to go to Spain to ascertain the number of foreign volunteers and supervise their withdrawal, but that the Soviet would not contribute to that part of the cost of the scheme which included expenditure on the transport of volunteers, since M. Kagan maintained that there were no Russian volunteers. To Cost Over £1,000,000 ! It is understood that the estimated 1 cost of the evacuation scheme is between £1,000,000 and £1,500,000, which includes the work of the Com- : missions and the expenditure on bring- ■ ing together the volunteers, rnaintain- ! ing them in camps, and transporting j I hem to ports lor evacuation to their i own countries. It is contemplated that this cost should be borne in equal shares by lln; five non-intervention Powers rei presented on the chairman's sub- | committee. The sub-committee will meet again | on Thursday. In addition to the £1,500,000 mentioned in the Estimates, £750,000 will be expended in transporting auxiliaries to their own countries. BRITISH SHIP BUNK BOMBED BY THE INSURGENTS RESCUE OF THE CREW United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received June 1, 11.30 a.m.) VALENCIA, May 31 The insurgents bombed and sank the British ship Penthames. The vessel was being repaired when it was sunk. The cre'w were saved. A SHAMBLES THE HORRORS OF WAR WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED FLEEING PEOPLE GUNNED (United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received June 1, 1.10 p.m.) BARCELONA, May 31 All the ghastliness of Guernica was reproduced in Grangollers, which is a market town with a single main street, in which 30 houses were wrecked and choked with debris, from which troops and workmen are digging out. bodies. The first bomb dug a hole in the busy market square and created a shambles among the queues of customers. Another split a three-storey 6tore from top to bottom. The raiders, after infiicting the maximum possible damage, machinegunned the fleeing citizens, and then sped to Majorca, with 33 loyalist planes ineffectually pursuing them. The death-roll includes all one man’s children, who wero killed when a bomb struck the school.